=B3Unstable Zones: Self and Other in British Narratives of First Encounters=B2An International Conference on British Narratives of Exploration

22 - 23 March 2007

Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences HumainesLyon, France

An international conference on British narratives of exploration, from Drak=eand Ralegh to Fleming and Chatwin, will be held at the ENS in March 2007.Participants will be expected to meet two major requirements. They shoulddeal primarily with the pragmatic aspects of first encounters: how self andother are brought to recontextualize their linguistic, cognitive orhermeneutic practices in the specific field of action in which the centralmoments of interaction occur; particular attention should also be paid tothe textual dimension of the account: how self and other are also producedthrough a specific rhetoric, narrative devices, metaphors, etc. Thelanguage of the conference will be English. We are in the process ofnegotiating publication of a volume of selected papers on =B3Unstable Zones=B2.

Please send a 300 word abstract through the post to Prof. F. Regard, c/o MsMarie Limongi, Laboratoire LIRE-SEMA. Ecole Normale Superieure. 15, ParvisRene Descartes. BP 7000. 69 342 Lyon cedex 07. France. Please also include =ashort biographical note, your e-mail address, and a regular mail address atwhich you can be reached. The deadline for proposals is 30 June 2006.Participants will be notified before the end of September 2006.

The Ecole Normale Superieure LSH, perhaps better known as the ENSFontenay/St.Cloud, relocated to Lyon in 2000. A big city, with its oldcentre a World Heritage Site, Lyon is very conveniently situated halfwaybetween Paris and Marseille; it has an international airport and it is onlya 2-hour TGV ride from Paris.